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HOLDER FOR USE IN GARVING MEAT. No. 298,174. Patented May 6, 1884.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LOUIS OHEVALIER AND LEON GRAILLOT, OF PARIS, FRANCE.

HOLDER FOR USE IN CAR ViNG MEAT.

V SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 298,174, dated May 6, 1884.

Application filed March 14, 1884. (N0 model.)

To all whom it may concern;

Be it'known that we, LOUIS OHEVALIER and LEON GRAILLOT, of the city of Paris, France, have inventednew and useful Improvements in Holders for Use in Carving Meat, and for similar Purposes, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to a device designed to grasp the bone of a outlet, to avoid holding the same in the hand when removing the meat therefrom. The said device also serves as a holder for a leg of mutton, the leg of a chicken,

or the like.

We shall now proceed to describe the invention, having reference to the accompanying drawings, in which' Figure 1 is a front elevation of the said outlet-holder. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of the same perpendicular to the jaws of the holder. Fig. 3 is a similar view, showing the holder closed. Fig. 4 is a longitudinal section between the jaws of the holder, the latter being open. Fig. 5 is a front elevation of the holder open, the same being mounted in a handle.

Similar letters of reference indicate corre sponding parts throughout the figures.

The holder is composed of two jaws, a, terminated by two blades, 1), riveted at theireX- tremities c, and acting as springs to keep the jaws a apart. Between these two blades b is riveted a rack, d, the latter having atendency to spring laterally from the direction of the said blades 7). .This rack, which is preferably punched out of a steel blade, is bent at its upper part, and terminates in a knob, f. The above-mentioned pieces can be introduced as far as projections formed at the bottoms of the jaws a, into a sheath, h, fixed in ahandle,

i, which may be of any suitable shape. This c let-bone or the like has been placed between the two jaws a, (which are grooved on their inner faces, in order to enable them to firmly grasp the said bone and prevent it from slipping,) the blades are pushed into the said sheath, thereby pressing the jaws upon the c bone until the latter is firmly grasped, the said rack, which engages with the tooth k, holding the jaws in the desired position. In order to open the jaws, it is sufficient topress the knob f, which releases the rack from the tooth 7c,

thereby enabling the blades to be readily withdrawn.

We cl'aim A cutlet-holder composed of the sheath 7:,

fixed into any suitable handle, the jaws a,

grooved on their inner faces, and the blades 1), acting'as springs, in combination with the rack d, or its equivalent, engaging into the inner projection, k, on the pawl j of the sheath h, the

whole constructed and operating as hereinbe- 6 5 fore specified, and for the purposes set forth. The foregoing specification of our improvements in holders for use in carving meat, and for similar purposes, signed by us. a LOUIS OHEVALIER.

, LEON .GRAILLOT. WVitnesses: Boer. M. HOOPER, GEORGE BRAUN. 

